T-Mobile has one message for regulators on its ability to...
T-Mobile has one message for regulators on its ability to deploy LTE and another message for Wall Street, said Verizon Wireless, the SpectrumCo partners and Cox in a letter to the FCC. In its most recent presentation to the FCC…
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against the transactions, “T-Mobile offers no new analysis, facts, or reasons that could justify denying the pending applications to assign AWS spectrum in the secondary market,” the letter said (http://xrl.us/bm8v78). “These transactions will help provide the spectrum capacity necessary for Verizon Wireless to meet consumers’ growing needs for 4G service. T-Mobile, however, simply repeats claims that the Applicants have rebutted in the past.” The presentation is at odds with other comments by Deutsche Telekom Chief Financial Officer Timotheus Höttges, they said. “Twice in the last two weeks” Höttges “has relayed to investors the company’s optimistic view of T-Mobile’s future in the U.S. market,” Verizon and the cable companies said. “'[W]e will have an LTE offer, which is competitive enough with all the players in the U.S. market,’ and will be launched next year,” the letter quotes Höttges as saying. “'And by the way, at the end of the day for almost every market, we have two times 10 megahertz of LTE. This is giving us a clear path until 2017, 2018, whatever projection you might take with regards to data consumption on a standalone basis.'” Verizon and the cable operators contend, “T-Mobile’s regulatory advocacy is so different from its parent’s view that one can only conclude it is misusing the regulatory process solely to impede a competitor’s 4G plans or extract concessions.”